William J. Oetgen, MD, MBA, FACP, FACC
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
Georgetown University

William J. Oetgen, MD, MBA received his undergraduate degree in psychology at Marquette University in 1969. He was a cum laude graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where he was elected into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honorary society. He served his internship and pediatrics residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. He subsequently completed his internal medicine residency at Walter Reed and volunteered to serve at the U.S. Army Hospital Seoul, Korea as an internist and flight surgeon. Completing his tour in Korea, Doctor Oetgen returned to Walter Reed for his fellowship in cardiovascular medicine. Doctor Oetgen was Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Walter Reed, and he completed his active duty Army service as Assistant Chief of the Cardiology Service in 1986. He retired as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1999.

Entering private practice in 1986, Doctor Oetgen was appointed Chief of Cardiology at Greater Southeast Community Hospital in Washington, DC. In 1996, he graduated from Georgetown University School of Business with a Master of Business Administration. In 1997 Doctor Oetgen co-founded Maryland Health Care Associates, a multi-specialty medical practice and Apollo Medical Management Company, management services organization in the southern Maryland suburbs of Washington. Doctor Oetgen is actively practicing cardiovascular medicine in his multi-specialty group which has ninety physicians and has grown to be the largest physician practice group in the southern Maryland region.

Doctor Oetgen is currently a consultant in cardiovascular medical risk management for the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland and is a consultant in medical liability issues for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and in special medical disability issues for the United States Department of Justice. He is also chairman of the American College of Cardiology’s Improving Continuous Cardiac Care Working Group and co-chairman of the Malpractice Working Group of the American College of Cardiology.  

Doctor Oetgen has served on the Board of Directors of HealthScribe, an internet-based medical transcription company which was featured in Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat. He is a current Director of Integra Health Services, an Ohio-based medical business process service provider.

Since 2005, Doctor Oetgen has served as a Director of MedStar Health, Inc., the largest integrated health system in the Washington, DC – Baltimore, Maryland corridor with eight local hospitals under management. In his tenure, Doctor Oetgen has been a member of the corporate Quality and Professional Affairs Committee, and the Finance Committee. He is currently Vice- Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee and Vice Chairman of the Executive Compensation Committee.